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Jane is here and I took off from work yesterday, borrowed the car and picked her up from their northerly hotel location. She met the cats and Massimo, who was home sick. Paolo (who seems to get nervous around new people) hissed at her, but Aristotle was pronounced a sweetie.
We went for lunch at Noodle-Ism and it was good, then we drove over to the condo construction site and admired my condo-to-be (a construction web cam of it can be viewed here), and the work being done even though the site was a big mud pit from all the rain.
Then we hit Toy Joy where we wandered around for a goodly while taking it all in. Jane got a toy for her doggies and I spent a buck twent-five on some tiny, brightly colored plastic reptiles who are small enough to use on ATCs. Jane picked out a little snake and asked me to make her a card using it, which I will!
Thence to Coco's (where I did such a bad job of parallel parking that three guys sitting on the steps of a church laughed their asses off at me) for some bubble tea (Jane got green apple green tea and I got almond milk tea) and back to my place just as the wind was picking up hard and cold, the sky getting very very dark. We got in the door as more rain began to fall.
We drank our bubble tea as it rained outside; I showed Jane the book cover and she said other than the fact that the woman looks a lot like Michael Jackson (thanks Jane) and bears no resemblance to anyone in the book, it wasn't a bad cover. Then we looked at my ATCs, both the ones I've made and the ones I've so far traded for, and discussed techniques, etc. Paolo hissed at Jane again (it must have been the scent of the dogs, Jane) but the rest of the crew were well-behaved.
The other things...
~I think a grand idea for global travel would be to tour forests of the world--rain, temperate, and cloud forests, famous forests, old and young forests...
~I am eating a coconut pistachio cookie while drinking organic Earl Grey tea and it is good
~last night I watched two episodes of Starsky and Hutch, as tvland was running a marathon; it was very nostalgic. I remember so loving htat show when I was nine or ten--and it's still fun to watch!
~I got the new Laurie R. King Mary Russell book from the libe--The Game--and it looks like a fantastic read.
~Book promotion efforts are picking up a little.
We went for lunch at Noodle-Ism and it was good, then we drove over to the condo construction site and admired my condo-to-be (a construction web cam of it can be viewed here), and the work being done even though the site was a big mud pit from all the rain.
Then we hit Toy Joy where we wandered around for a goodly while taking it all in. Jane got a toy for her doggies and I spent a buck twent-five on some tiny, brightly colored plastic reptiles who are small enough to use on ATCs. Jane picked out a little snake and asked me to make her a card using it, which I will!
Thence to Coco's (where I did such a bad job of parallel parking that three guys sitting on the steps of a church laughed their asses off at me) for some bubble tea (Jane got green apple green tea and I got almond milk tea) and back to my place just as the wind was picking up hard and cold, the sky getting very very dark. We got in the door as more rain began to fall.
We drank our bubble tea as it rained outside; I showed Jane the book cover and she said other than the fact that the woman looks a lot like Michael Jackson (thanks Jane) and bears no resemblance to anyone in the book, it wasn't a bad cover. Then we looked at my ATCs, both the ones I've made and the ones I've so far traded for, and discussed techniques, etc. Paolo hissed at Jane again (it must have been the scent of the dogs, Jane) but the rest of the crew were well-behaved.
The other things...
~I think a grand idea for global travel would be to tour forests of the world--rain, temperate, and cloud forests, famous forests, old and young forests...
~I am eating a coconut pistachio cookie while drinking organic Earl Grey tea and it is good
~last night I watched two episodes of Starsky and Hutch, as tvland was running a marathon; it was very nostalgic. I remember so loving htat show when I was nine or ten--and it's still fun to watch!
~I got the new Laurie R. King Mary Russell book from the libe--The Game--and it looks like a fantastic read.
~Book promotion efforts are picking up a little.
